The Startup Weekly: #24
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The art of iterating quickly
A great article from the folks at feedly on how they rapidly take customer feedback and iterate on their product. The article also talks about some of the tools they use. The main thing I took away was the importance of user testing. Don’t just test the app yourself, ask a potential user to do it. And asking them for feedback is not enough — watching the user try and navigate the app can offer quite important lessons.
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Paul Graham’s Startup Advice for the Lazy
Read everything Paul Graham writes. But in case you haven’t yet, this article is a great summary. All of his timeless wisdom, distilled into a 10 minute article. But don’t be surprised if you spend a lot more time on this — it’ll be worth it.
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How to raise your first $100,000 (for first time founders)
Raising money for your first startup can be a daunting task. This article is a great primer on how to raise your first $100k when you’ve never raised money before.
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Advice is worthless, except when it’s not
As one of the mentors of the author of this article said, “My job is to give you lots of advice. Your job is to ignore 95% of it.” But how do you know what’s the 95% and what’s the 5%?
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The Complete List of Famous Growth Hacks That Every Startup Needs To Know
If you’re interested in growth for your startup (who isn’t?), then this is a very useful resource. This article compiles 20 different types of growth hacks, with examples, that you can use to kickstart traction for your own product. I’m going to keep coming back to this over the next few weeks.
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The ultimate collection of podcasts for startup founders
If you like listening to podcasts (I’ve started recently, and it makes my commutes a lot more interesting), then you should definitely check these ones out. Josh Muccio, who runs a great podcast himself (see the last one in the list) compiles a list of great podcasts for startup founders to listen to. I only listen to The Pitch from these, but the others are now on my playlist!
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Value Creation 101
Anant (Bessemer) puts together a very good 101 on the concept of value and how can one create it. Strikingly well structured thoughts — most definitely help one think of business models with a value creation lens. Valuable to founders as well as investors, we’d say.
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The Future of Ecommerce — Bill Gurley (Benchmark)
A must watch if you’re doing anything in ecommerce. In this chat, Bill examines the future of ecommerce and provides his perspective on the future of the unicorn market, how “funnel reversal” is impacting marketer’s focus on google, and why retention is critical to profitability over acquisition’s hold on growth.
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